Everyone on the Bioship screamed in agony as the electric shock traveled through their bodies, it felt like the ship had flown right into an electrified net. Even Connor felt the effects and, though he was the last one, he too eventually blacked out.


When Wally began to come to the first thing he noticed was the feeling of cold steel seeping through his costume, the second thing he noticed was that he wasn't alone. There was something, or someone, pressed up against him. Opening his eyes in alarm he was met with the sight of a blond woman wearing an orange suit with black padding and instantly he forgot about the steel floor beneath him, he didn't notice anything else about his surroundings, all he cared about was that Artemis was sleeping peacefully next to him. Still she was in her Tigress costume and that alarmed Wally, for a minute he wondered how much time had really passed since he was somehow teleported out of the artic, he only hoped it really was a day and that Artemis didn't have enough time to find herself involved with the Light or Shadows again. Deciding that he didn't want to wait until she woke up on her own Wally sat up halfway and propped himself up on his elbow before he began to gently shake his girlfriend's arm.

"Artemis" he said quietly "hey Artemis" he repeated and slowly she began to stir. He saw it when her gray eyes fluttered open beneath her mask. He gave her a smile as she woke and the moment she realized that it was the red headed speedster waking her, her face lit up.

"Wally!" She exclaimed, sitting up and throwing her arms around his neck. Wally laughed as he wrapped his free arm around his girlfriend's waist, then sitting up so that he wasn't leaning on one elbow and also wrapped that arm around her waist. After a minute Artemis pulled out of the hug and Wally received a not so gentle punch to the arm.

"Don't you ever scare me like the again!" Artemis warned; Wally only chuckled as he rubbed his 'injured' bicep.

That was when the others began to wake and Wally noticed that he was in a cage with Artemis, M'gann, and, of all people, Cheshire. On the other side of the room was another cage containing Nightwing, Conner, Aqualad, and Red Arrow. The cages had bars made of thick, red lasers and the room itself appeared to be some sort of storage room. Aside from the two cages it contained a few crates but other than that it was mostly bare; it was also lit only by the light coming off the bars of the cages.

"So you are alive," Red Arrow commented as he came to, a small smile barely visible on his face.

"Yeah, but how did you guys find me? Where even are we?" Wally questioned his friends, he was stoked that they had found him, but he still wanted to know what happened.

"Well we were on the Reach's home planet, but right now it looks like we're being transported somewhere. An electric shock knocked us all out," Nightwing explained and Wally nodded, remembering that after the gag he felt something like a taser being shoved into his hip until he lost consciousness. "As for how we found you, well, we wouldn't have if it weren't for Jade" he continued and Wally couldn't help the surprise on his face as he turned to look at his girlfriend's sister.

"You helped them find me?" He asked her in disbelief, her mask made it nearly impossible for him to tell if she was surprised by his surprise or not.

"Don't get too comfortable West, I just didn't want to spend the rest of my life listening to Roy and Artemis blame themselves for your death" she excused but just about everyone knew she was lying.

Just then a door opened and an alien, again looking to be of the same race as the Reach, walked into the room. He was tall and wore a gray uniform as if he was a prisoner, but the heroes knew that he was most likely the exact opposite.

"Hm, you're awake" he mused as he inspected the two cages.

"Where are we?" Conner demanded

"Oh so you can talk. No matter, the dome is soundproof anyway." The alien said, speaking to himself more than Conner or any of the others. He then began to walk away.

"Hey!" Conner called after him, his blood boiling.

"Oh sorry, I didn't realize how disoriented you creatures must be." The alien remarked, turning back to face group and explain the situation. "We discovered you trespassing and obviously for the reasons of public safety such an offence is not tolerated," he explained.

"So you are taking us to a prison?" Kaldur questioned but the alien only smirked

"Not quite" he responded.


"So Wally gets himself transported to the home world of some of earth's greatest enemies and as his friends we come after him, therefore we all end up as an exhibit in an intergalactic zoo." Roy summed up after the eight of them had been dumped into a 'habitat'.

"And thank you for coming to save me, now how do we get out of here?" Wally asked as they stood around their 'habitat'.

The habitat was a fairly large wooded area with a translucent dome covering it. It was far off in the corner of the zoo, which the eight now found themselves captives of. Naturally they were staying towards the back corner where nobody could see them.

"Not sure. Superboy hasn't been able to punch through the dome, which is also cutting off any communication back to earth" Nightwing reported.

"None of our arrows could get through either" Artemis reported.

"What about the ground?" Cheshire questioned but to that Conner only shook his head as he approached the group.

"No good, underneath all the dirt is the same technology as the dome," he reported and Nightwing nodded.

"I'll see if I can hack the security, but it could take awhile." He told the group, by the looks of things they were stuck here for the night.

They all slept off in the back corner, except for Nightwing who decided he would stay up all night trying to hack the dome that kept them contained. At first Wally had been a little hesitant to lie down beside Artemis, considering her sister was around. Dick couldn't help but chuckle as he watched Wally's face turn red as his hair and he almost laughed harder when he saw Artemis and Jade silently laughing at the speedster. Eventually though Jade had enough of mocking the poor guy and lay down beside her husband, turning her head away from Wally and Artemis just to make a point.


A couple hours later, however, Jade was still yet to fall asleep so she got up and began walking. When Nightwing gave her a skeptical look she informed him the she was just going to check out the front of the dome, he simply said "ok". Walking though the trees and making her way to the front of the habitat Jade could see that there were a few other habitats nearby, and the creatures inside each one didn't exactly look friendly. Suddenly she heard something behind her, instinctively she took up a fighting stance as she turned around but dropped it when she saw that it was only Wally.

"You know you really shouldn't sneak up on me," she warned

"I wasn't sneaking" he defended, raising his hands up as if in surrender. "I just wanted to thank you. I didn't think I was ever going to see Artemis again," he confessed but Jade didn't say anything, she didn't really know what to say.

When he saw that Jade wasn't going to reply Wally moved onto his next order of business. "I've already talked to your mom and Green Arrow about this, and tell me if you think I should talk to your dad, but, how do I say this? I love Artemis and I don't ever want to let her go" Wally began, Cheshire's only thought was that he could not seriously be trying to say what she thought he was. "I want to know if you would be ok with me asking Artemis to marry me?" Wally spluttered out, he had been nervous when it was Green Arrow and Paula, but he was finding that Jade, who technically he didn't really need to ask, was much harder.

At least with Artemis's mother and mentor he had been fairly confident. He knew her mother liked him; she once even went as far as to say he was like a son to her. Green Arrow was a little harder to read, but when it came down to it Wally knew that the archer supported the speedster's relationship with his protégée. But Jade is a completely different story. Even without her signature mask Wally couldn't figure out what was going through her head. He doesn't know much about her, he knew that she was trying to leave the life behind but he had no idea how well that was actually going for her. But whether she is still an assassin or if she's a former one didn't matter to Wally because he knew that either way she is still good enough to kill him and burry the evidence.

"My dad will just try and talk you out of it" Jade finally said "he'll tell you you're wasting your time and that one day Artemis will leave the hero gig behind to join the Shadows, don't talk to him." She warned before giving a small grin, "as for me, if I didn't want you and my sister together I wouldn't have risked my neck against Luthor to find you." She explained and that was all Wally needed for a huge smile of relief and joy to light up his face.

"Jade, Wally, get back here!" They heard Nightwing call and so without a word they both hurried back to the others, obviously Wally beat Jade.

Once there they found that everyone else was awake and Nightwing was typing away at his wrist computer.

"I've found a way to shut down the dome but I can't take out the alarm it'll set off. Fortunately the dome only disables communication going out, not coming in. The bioship was able to track us here and alert Miss Martian that it's outside, but we're going to have to fight our way out when the guards hear the alarm. Unless we want to hang around a few more days and see if I can figure out the alarm." Nightwing explained, just as he expected everyone was willing to take their chances with the guards, they weren't staying any longer.